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vines, and, from the worms which developed when they rotted, men and 
women were produced. According to the Delawares, Manitou, having 
brought up the first land from the ocean, made man and woman out of 
a tree; and in one of the Ojibbeway legends in Kitchi-Gami, the first 
man appears among the reeds which Manitou had planted upon the 
shore. Compare this with the Quiche legend, in which, ‘man was made 
of a tree called ¢zz¢e, woman of the marrow of a reed called szbac, and 
there appears an agreement in tradition to which I know of no parallel. 
I have already stated that the Quiche or Maya-Quiche Tockill is the 
Polynesian Tangaloa, and the eponym of the Tagalas in the Philippines. 
This is confirmed not only by the identity of the Tagalan and Quiche 
accounts of the creation of man, but also by the appearance of the Quiche 
deity Bitol in the Tagalan Bathala, just as the Algonquin Waubuno re- 
appears in the Polynesian Ofanu. The Algonquins, Quiches and 
Abipones agree with some Polynesian peoples in identifying the soul 
with the shadow ; and Dr. Tylor in his Primitive Culture, draws special 
attention to ‘the conception of the spirit voice as being a low murmur, 
chirp or whistle, as it were the ghost of a voice, aconception common to 
the Polynesians and the Algonquins.’”* 
Besides Tohil or Tockill and Bitol, the name of the Quiche god Tepeu 
occurs in Tongan and other Polynesian mythologies, as that of one of 
the sons of Tangaloa, namely Toobo, while the other, Vaca-acow-ooli, 
probably represents the warlike Vaku, the Quiche bird-god in attendance 
upon Hurakan. The deity Onafanna of Navigator’s Islands answers to 
the Maya-Quiche Hunahpu. Turning to tribal names, the Mayas 
probably have their eponym in the Polynesian god Maui, and some of 
the Maories and the inhabitants of Moa bear their name. The Poko- 
Mams may be compared with the Bugis of Celebes. As the Algonquin 
Abenakis and Illinois connect with the island of Opoun of the Naviga- 
tor’s group, and many places similarly named elsewhere in the area, and 
with the [llinoans of Borneo, so the Ititepanes of the Philippines, and the 
Marquesas’ island names, Fatuhiva and Nukahiva, probably represent 
slightly aberrant forms of the Oxyib, Uxab, and Ojibbeway name. In 
the Malay archipelago, the influences, first of Hinduism, both Brahman 
and Buddhist, and afterwards of Mahometanism, have done much to 
obliterate the traces of the original inhabitants, so far as history and 
tradition are concerned. Nevertheless, it may yet be possible to point 
out the precise localities whence the Maya-Quiche, Mbaya-Abipone, and 
Algonquin tribes first set out for their long voyage over the Pacific 
Ocean. For such a task the writer has, at present, neither the time nor 
the opportunity. The evidence of language is what he desires mainly to 
